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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I won't talk about immigrants and human rights or ruined trade deals and the death of American farms or say "how is this America first."

All things considered, reviewing five years of a tourist's social media is not as horrific as other moves. But it suggests:

*utter disregard for the First Amendment
*our government going into mass surveillance mode
*a very predictable and costly negative effects on tourism (already happening!)

This fascism pure and simple. If a democrat had ever approximated any plans of this kind, you all would have lost your minds.

I want to understand how ANYONE who believes in civil liberties and core American principles can defend this.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-tourists-social-media-history-5-years-trump/[/quote]

It's strange how people get so up in arms about things only when it hits close to home. Not defending the policy but, and this goes with all those racist Euro-defenders, I had a friend (American born and raised) that was denied entrance at Heathrow over 30 years ago for simply looking too Irish even though they were, and had, a southern European surname; and they had to basically eat a round trip ticket from New England. Countries have been doing things like this since forever.

The US has used Immigration counters as de facto race-based admissions tests for decades but white people only seem to care when white people are targeted. Maybe open your damn mouths when it's your neighbor.[/quote]

OP here. You could not be more wrong about me. Maybe don't make so many assumptions.

However, you are touching on some of the reasons I started the thread. When I have started other threads on say, immigration, there was so much disagreement in the basic positions that it was difficult to have a productive argument. So I brought this story up not only because it should be uncontroversial, but also because the couple of well-educated people I know who supported Trump are HUGE anti-surveillance people.  They were always accusing Democratic governments of much worse.[/quote]

You misread them. They are only anti-surveillance if it can affect them. 
This is surveillance of foreigners that aren't even in the US yet. They don't care.

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